解析大学英语词汇教学中英语词源学的应用

随着高校教学改革的深入,大学英语教学尝试适量引入词汇词源知识,探讨词源信息在大学英语教学的意义和作用,增加词汇知识,提高学生学习兴趣。结合词源学的特点,对其在大学英语词汇教学中的应用进行了分析和探讨,并提出相应的教学策略。

draft一词在国际贸易中被用作贸易术语的缘由探析

以draft一词为例,探讨其在国际贸易中被用作贸易术语的过程及缘由,首先,分析draft在国际贸易术语中的角色,然后,分析draft的本意与词源演变,最后得出:第一,词义的发展变化并非只随着其本意发展或延伸;第二,英语贸易术语的词语选择具有浓厚的历史和文化选择性。

A Study of the Main Obstacles to the Development of Advanced Lexical Competence

The present study is to explore the main obstacles to the development of lexical competence in advanced English study. It is conducted by having questionnaires and interviews among 220 students and by analyzing the teaching materials. The findings to the study indicate that the main obstacles are caused from the following aspects： neglecting the importance of developing vocabulary in the advanced study; neglecting activating the students＇ directing sense and detecting sense to difficult words; low rate of word recurrence in the teaching materials; requiring distinguishing the shade of the difference between synonyms excessively and too meticulously; overemphasizing the ＂negative transfer＂ of mother tongue; and some other obstacles to the development of lexical competence.

基于词根、词缀的英语单词记忆法研究

英语学习中最重要的是要记住单词,要掌握大量的单词,如果是采用死记硬背的方法,效率低,采用词根、词缀记忆法能够批量记忆单词并且记忆扎实。本文探讨词源对英语学习的意义,给出了词根分解的方法,利用此方法设计词根分解程序,给出测试结果,从对测试结果的分析可以看出,本文的词根分解方法可以快速、准确地找到单词里面含有的词根和词缀,对于利用词源记忆单词有重要的意义。